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"When I die, know that I fulfilled my duty to the end."
 Olena Teliha

July 21, 2006, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian poet-heroine Olena Teliha.
Born in Russia and raised in Ukraine, Teliha also lived in Czechoslovakia (where her family fled to escape the Bolshevik revolution) and later in Poland.
Her early activism in Ukrainian communities and literary career
brought Teliha back to Ukraine when the Nazi army pushed the Soviets further East. When Teliha refused to cooperate with
the Nazi authorities, she was arrested. On February 12, 1942, Olena Teliha
was shot to death by the Gestapo and buried in the infamous Babyn Yar in Kyiv.